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Ok. If you get writers block just tell me :-)

Then I can move past the character development

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@mugin Do you need me to do a time jump?

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Ashburn
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Ash's smile quickly turned into a look of concern as Eric began to clench his gut. His worry was abundantly evident on his face as the book worm got up and walked the two steps over to Eric's cot and sat beside him.

"I still have that Aspirin in my pocket if you need some." Ash offered as he pulled out the mini altoids container he used to hold his pills. His side gave a sympathetic twinge of pain at the site.

Ash of course was not sure if it would help at all, after all its not exactly like pain medication was ever designed for transformation into demons. All he could do was try to help.

"Maybe if we talk I can distract you from the pain?" Ash said with a forced smile

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Ashburn
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Ash smiled back with a cheesy grin that almost looked comical.

"Eric don't be so hard on yourself." Ash said gently "You're perfectly fine now and whatever form you take will also be beautiful. After all, Mrs. Mabel said our demon form is the true form of our soul. This means all the good and bad manifested physically I assume. And somebody with as much good as you have in you couldn't possibly be ugly in your soul. You've forgiven people for things that are just evil, and been nothing but nice since you got here. If your body is truly taking your soul's true form its beauty must be blinding."

Ash turned on the cot and sat on the edge, feet on the floor, eyes straight ahead looking into Eric's eyes.

"I find when faced with a challenge it is best to focus on the end result. In this case we will be full on demons, beings of eternity. Imagine what it will be like to live so long. Think about the people we will meet, and the adventure that means for us. We get to talk to people that can tell us first hand about Rome, Egypt and ancient China. People that have wisdom we as humans could only dream of accessing. And we have all the time in the world to do what we want to do. This is just a blink of an eye compared to the adventure that awaits us after this, and I'll be here for that whole blink. Going through it with you." Ash extended out his right pinky to offer it in a pinky swear "I promise to stay with you for this whole mess, as long as you need me. Even if Mrs. Mabel tries to drag me out of here."

Ash smiled widely with his crooked grin and nodded his head towards his extended pinky. Eric was a good friend after all they had been through thus far, and Ash's loving nature refused to allow a friend to suffer without him there for support.

"If you accept me for who I am and what I am becoming I promise to accept you for who you are and whatever you are becoming."

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Mabel
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With an sign Mabel took Eric's hint, since it was certainly not subtle.

"Just put your plates by the door when you're done." She said annoyed as she left and locked the door behind her

Ashburn
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Ash cried on Eric'c shoulders for what felt like ages, but was probably only about ten minutes. Eric was right of course, crying wasn't going to accomplish anything. And most certainly Eric didn't deserve to be dragged into his problems. With a sigh he looked at Eric.

"I'm sorry man. It just doesn't seem fair, ya know?" He said trying to sound calm, despite a quiver in his voice "I guess in some way it is nice to know the truth though. In a morbid way I guess I just needed to know why she died. But gramps better have a damn good reason for not being there for us." He said with a forced chuckle

Wiping his tears on his arm he leaned against the wall behind his cot, reclining against its cool support.

"So a Terror class huh? Well on the bright side you'll look pretty bad ass when you're done with this mess. Apparently I'll either be a Twilight reject or some angel" Ash said with his warm laugh. In truth he was glad to be apparently a humanoid class demon, at least he might still be able to see some part of his current self left after this was done.

Ash made a silent promise to himself in his head. He would not complain for the whole phase. Whatever he was going through his friend would have it much worse, and for longer. Eric deserved his support and Ash felt bad to have complained when it was obvious someone else had it so much worse.

"Maybe you'll get some luck with the ladies" He said playfully "I hear chicks like a man thats tall, dark and handsome."

Ash gave his trademark warm laugh as he imagined a bunch of girls swooning over a ten foot tall Eric. Though the thought made him hurt a little inside, he ignored it. This was time for Eric to be cheered up. With a deep gulp he swallowed his emotions, about his family and anything else.

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Sorry @Mugin I'm not trying to make Ash the center of attention but I kind of needed to in this case, seeing as how he just figured out his grandfather abandoned his mother and that led to her death.

I promise to stop beating this dead horse after this.

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Mabel
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Uncrossing her arms Mabel stuck her hands into her pockets and took a more casual posture. This was clearly going to take a while.

"Well I don't have a firm answer for you Eric. To either question" She said, sounding surprisingly compassionate for a woman who had locked three men into a room for weeks "I guess I should begin by telling you that I am a telepathic demon. A vampire to be specific. My special ability allows me to read your minds, and also your souls.

"You Eric are a Guardian class demon, which is a type of terror. What this means for you is your transformation will be longer than Ashburn, who is a humanoid demon. I won't say what type he is because I can tell he doesn't want me to" She said looking over at Ashburn who was looking away embarrassed to be called out

"Anyway..." she continued "I can not read what your final form is but as a guardian you will most likely be significantly larger than you are now, and have dramatic changes to your form. I would guess a couple of months, and Ashburn a month and a half since his soul seems to prefer to do a slow and steady change rather than fast and dramatic.

"Now for your second question I will have to provide you some insight into the demon world. We demons have a long legacy, at least as long as homo-sapiens have existed or soon after. During this time we have established many traditions and some of those traditions have become laws enforced by other demons. Although we lack a true government, these laws are basically understood regulations all demons follow and enforce. Its kind of like social customs for humans.

"The most important of these have to do with transformations" Mabel looked at the ceiling to avoid their faces "You see each of you either has a father or grandfather that is a full realized demon. These men are responsible for ensuring you transition into demons, and were supposed to be watching you for your whole lives and turn you before you were at risk of death. Or if not them another member of your demon family. Somehow the three of you got lost. I have no idea how, but right now there are many demons that would kill me for transforming you. Unsealing your soul is a sacred rite I have taken from your families. This is unforgivable and I am stuck with the risk of what they will do when they find out.

"But that isn't your problem. Nobody in demon-kind would blame you for what I did. Right now I am trying to find your families, because they are supposed to help you transition into demonhood. So the answer to your second question is again that I do not know. It will be at least a few months since we can't transport you while you are weak, and maybe even after your transformed you'll be stuck here until I can find somebody to pawn you off on."

Ashburn
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Ash stared in silence as Mrs. Mabel gave her revelations. Not only did she reveal that Ash was a humanoid demon (something he had been hoping for) but that he had a whole family in this new demon world. A family that had abandoned him to rot in this cold cellar without even watching him.

But it also answered a major question in his life. His mother had been adopted, and even though she knew her biological mother she had refused to answer anything about his grandfather. All she said was she was a scared teenage mother and had put Ash's mother up for adoption as soon as she was born.

"That mother f*cker" Ashburn mumbled as tears started running down his cheeks "THAT MOTHER F*CKER KILLED MY MOM!!" he cried shrilly

"He could have saved her! He could have unsealed her! But he let her die! He abandoned his own daughter and grandson!" He sobbed into his lap, his burger sitting untouched on the end of his cot

Mabel
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Mabel reached her mind out gently to read Ash's, and trough the connection she could feel his pain. It was a pain that was so deep it even hurt her leather thick heart. Ash had always felt proud of his family, and never even though anything bad about his unknown grandfather. Through the connection she got flashes of memory. Ash playing with his mom in the swings, Ash naming a stuffed bear "grandpa" and giving it to his grandma. So many memories of a full and loving childhood, all lived with him thinking his grandpa was some mysterious good guy. Ash had even dreamed he was anything from a secret spy, to a guardian angel.

A small smile crossed her face at the irony. Ashburn was a fallen angel demon, and she could tell he would be a good one. A gentle heart combined with a fighting spirit would make him a hell of a demon. Looking at Eric she gestured with her head towards the sobbing kid sitting on the middle cot. After all she sure as h*ll wasn't going to be able to make the guy feel any better.

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Ashburn
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The past week had proven to be as difficult as promised by Mrs. Mabel. A few days ago his right eye had begun to feel very sore, like a massive pressure was building up inside of it. The pain brought tears to his eyes and when looking in the mirror he could see that it had turned a shade of blood red. That had given him a total panic, and it took Eric and Mrs. Mabel in tandem to get him to calm down.

Adding to is agony was the pain shooting up and down his body as it felt like he was being stretched. He had already grown a full inch in a week and his body was growing larger. Even though it was still lean muscle had begun to grow a larger chest, arms and other muscles. He was beginning to look more like a swimmer than a lazy gamer.

The only thing that was keeping him sane was being able to talk to Eric, even if it was in a hushed tone to avoid making his migraine worse.

Mabel
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"Hey ma'am, have you heard from Ash or those other guys recently?" a young black chef asked Mabel. He was average by most measures, five foot eight and small paunch from eating his own creations at home, but had a gentle deep voice and soft eyes that showed his worry.

"Oh them?" Mabel asked dismissively "Those three idiots quit after that whole customer fiasco. I guess they couldn't handle a couple of pissed customers" silently though Mabel patting herself on the back for having the foresight to move Ashburn's truck into the owner's garage. They never used it and were only to happy to help cover up what was really going on. After all the last thing this joint needed was a bunch of cops snooping around, no amount of charm could make corpse dogs not do their jobs.

"Are you sure?" He prodded gently "It just doesn't sound like Eric or Ash. That washer maybe, but not those two."

"Look Devon I am not paying you to manage payroll so don't worry yourself over it." She replied coldly, her eyes shooting daggers into his very soul "People come and go all the time from here, its not unusual. Now fix me two cheeseburgers and a vanilla milk shake. The owners are going to want lunch and it isn't going to be my ass they fire if they go hungry."

Chills shot down Devon's spine at the look and silenced him. He quickly did as she asked and brought her the food quietly. Without so much as a thank you Mabel left the kitchen, and after making sure nobody saw her, went down into the basement.

After opening the door like usual she locked it behind her and went to stand in the middle of the small room.

"Ok boys I figure you need some meat to grown big and strong so I brought burgers. If you don't like them then shut the f*ck up because I don't give a sh*t." She said as she put the plates in front of Ash and Eric, setting the shake in its usual place to be force fed into Zack. She wouldn't admit it but she was worried. His soul had a weak presence and seemed as if it wasn't replenishing fast enough to sustain the energy it was devoting to fixing its body.

"Its time for lesson two of being a demon. Seeing as how you're both starting to transform I will now be giving you daily lessons." She leaned against the wall and crossed her arms before beginning the lesson.

"The Transformation Stage

"The transformation stage of development is the time between the ceremony that unseals the soul and the time your heart stops beating. It is often said to be a defining time in a young demons life because it is the most trying. It much resembles human puberty, though compressed into a matter of months or weeks.

"Humanoid type demons (those who resemble humans) have the shortest, due to the limited changes. Terror types demons (those with virtually no resemblance to humans) have the longest with some lasting up to four months.

"The first phase is the preparation of the body. During this time the soul mends any injuries or health problems. For most people this is only a few days, but for you guys it has obviously stretched out nearly two weeks because you were in bad shape even before falling down the stairs. This phase is the least painful and is trademarked by extreme fatigue and low mind activity.

"The second phase is when the soul prepares the aesthetics of the body. This stage is most noticeable in humanoids because they have the most human traits. Hair color, eye color and other basic traits are subject to change during this time. Although more painful than the first phase you will notice more energy and less fatigue due to the low key nature of the changes. It is also possible you will experience a growth spurt if your true form is notably larger, and the same goes for weight gain/loss.

"The third phase deals with organs and is, generally, incrementally more painful than the last. Since demons do not have a shared anatomy this phase varies greatly. Humanoids sometimes do not even notice this phase however since they experience few if any changes. Most humanoids will lose vestigial organs through self-cannibalization but nothing too severe. Terrors however will be the ones that find this stage the most painful. Depending on the scope of the change you may lose almost all of your organs, including your sexual organs. Though the digestive tracts remain in place, for unknown reasons, as well as the brain, heart and lungs (though these can change shapes and locations). Don’t worry about your c*cks though boys, because only ghouls can lose theirs. Even then it is a rare occasion.

"The final phase is universally considered to be the most painful, torturous even. This is the final transformation and your bodies will be changing rapidly and dramatically. Wings, horns, talons and other traits emerge at this point as well as changes to the skin. It is this phase that you will lose your human appearance, as I sense that none of you are vampires (who are the exception to this rule)"

Mrs. Mabel looked at the both them them calmly "Now do you have any questions kiddos?"

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